I don't know if the Avs can sustain this, but I think it's clear they are much, much better with Roy as their coach. It's night and day from last year really.

That is almost always going to happen when you get rid of such a bad coach. A lot of teams go through the new coach phase of sudden rapid improvement, that is how Bruce Boudreau won his coach of the year award in Washington.

The Avs have a lot of good young players up front, but the back position still lacks quality. @Baaaston and @Washington should be good tests of how the defence stacks up.